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- From: "bbmackey" <bbmackey@prodigy.net>
- To: "gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Selling plants and Potting Soil
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:55:27 -0400
This is a great fund raiser, Melanie, but it sounds
like you are doing it alone.
My own local independent garden club, The Community
Garden Club at Wayne, has an annual plant sale to raise money for a scholarship
and also some of our operating expenses such as those big speaker fees we all
charge (but not as much as a new horn).
I have been running the plants-from-our-gardens
portion for years (we also have a bake sale and sell nursery-grown geraniums)
and have enlisted club members to help in several ways. We have two potting
sessions, one in fall and one in spring. One member (not me this year, for
once!) gets the potting soil, donated pots, worktable, etc set up. A number of
members come, bringing their unpotted donations such as big old clumps of hosta
that must be surgically separated and repotted, and other garden goodies, aiming
for things that look nice or are in bloom in the beginning of May when the sale
is held. Also, people pot things up at home (it's a garden club so they know
how) and bring them with nametags and prices already on them. Duh!
It took me years to figure out to make everyone do that! I even wrote up
guidelines. Until I did this, I ran around like a lunatic on plant sale day
trying to label everything everyone else had brought, with early-bird customers
trying to buy it all as members carried it to the sale area.("We're not open
yet!!")
Members who used to have gardens but now are in
apartments come over for fun and to help with the potting, along with others. As
the saying goes, many hands make light the work! However, we know the story --
it is always certain members who do the most while others get a free
ride.
My group is a good bit older, so there is no reason
why the band people can't come over to your place, Melanie, and do a lot of the
work. Also your prices seem a bit low. You could
even call it a garden seminar on how to divide perennials and charge
admission!!
If these band parents are all too busy, there may
be other community members who would like to help.
Sandie's point about getting donated equipment and
potting soil from stores is great. A few phone calls may do it. Some of these
places have bags of peat moss or other stuff that has a hole or split in the
packaging -- they may be throwing it away but they could give it to you for
a tax credit.
My neigborhood here is old and overly shaded,
so some of our plant-sale winners in May are hostas, Phlox stolonifera,
primroses, Stylophorum diphylla (yellow wood poppy), ferns of all sorts, and
forget-me-nots.
My group's sale this year is at St. Mary's church
in Wayne PA on May 7, 8 am to 1 pm.
With best wishes,
Betty Betty Mackey, Publisher
B. B. Mackey Books P. O. Box 475 Wayne, PA 19087 bbmackey@prodigy.net www.mackeybooks.com
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[gwl-g] Selling plants and Potting Soil,
Melanie, 04/28/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] Selling plants and Potting Soil,
Sandie Parrott, 04/28/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] Selling plants and Potting Soil,
Melanie, 04/28/2005
- [gwl-g] OT- Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Found, Daryl, 04/28/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] Selling plants and Potting Soil,
Melanie, 04/28/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Selling plants and Potting Soil, bbmackey, 04/28/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] Selling plants and Potting Soil,
Sandie Parrott, 04/28/2005
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